Office 365 Service Descriptions

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Microsoft Office 365 is a cloud-based service that is designed to help meet your organization’s needs for robust security, reliability, and user productivity. The topics in this library provide detailed descriptions of the services and features that are available with Office 365. To get started, see the following service descriptions: Office 365 Platform Service Description Exchange Online Service Description Exchange Online Archiving Service Description Exchange Online Protection Service…

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Q: How does the Windows Azure ExpressRoute differ from the current site-to-site VPN solution?

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ A: Within Windows Azure, virtual networks are created which contain virtual subnets into which virtual machines (VMs) are placed. The high level sequence of operations goes like this: Create an affinity group in a Windows Azure region. Create a virtual network in the affinity group. Create a new cloud service in the affinity group. Create VMs in the new cloud service and the virtual network/virtual subnet.  All VMs…

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Mailbox Migration Performance Analysis

Nuno Árias Silva

Body:   ​When you’re migrating on-premises mailboxes to Office365, there are a lot of factors that can impact overall mailbox migration speed and performance. This post will help you investigate and correct the possible causes by using the AnalyzeMoveRequestStats.ps1 script to analyze the performance of a batch of move requests to identify reasons for slower performance.  The AnalyzeMoveRequestStats script provides important performance statistics from a given set of move request…

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Mailbox Migration Performance Analysis

Nuno Árias Silva

Body:   ​When you’re migrating on-premises mailboxes to Office365, there are a lot of factors that can impact overall mailbox migration speed and performance. This post will help you investigate and correct the possible causes by using the AnalyzeMoveRequestStats.ps1 script to analyze the performance of a batch of move requests to identify reasons for slower performance.  The AnalyzeMoveRequestStats script provides important performance statistics from a given set of move request…

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Understanding Hyper-V Networking with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ In most IT environments, there are different types of networks, different ways the networks are used, and different types of connectivity for the different hosts. System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2012 R2 provides the various architectural components (e.g., port profiles, logical networks, logical switches, virtual networks) to enable even highly complex network environments to be configured, which simplifies future administration. However, the initial networking configuration can be…

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Comparing the differences between Antispam agents from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Microsoft has built in Anti spam feature which can be enabled from Exchange 2003 versions. We can enable this feature as a part of additional security along with additional spam configurations and settings that have been configured before it reaches our network. But we need to always ensure that we are aware of all the settings configured in the spam filtering in our organization in all the levels…

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Certificate Planning in Exchange 2013

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Now that we understand the load balancing and namespace planning principles and how clients connect in an Exchange 2013 environment that has Exchange 2007 and/or Exchange 2010 deployed, the proper certificates can be constructed and deployed as part of the upgrade process. Of course it goes without saying that there are a few rules you should follow in crafting your certificates: Use as few certificates as possible. Use as…

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Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ With only a 1-year gap—which equates, realistically, to about 9 months of engineering time—between Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2, Microsoft had to make a decision. Should it make small changes across the entire spectrum of Windows Server features? Or should it focus on key scenarios and make meaningful changes to the technologies that are associated with those scenarios? Thankfully, Microsoft went in the second direction.…

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Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ With only a 1-year gap—which equates, realistically, to about 9 months of engineering time—between Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2, Microsoft had to make a decision. Should it make small changes across the entire spectrum of Windows Server features? Or should it focus on key scenarios and make meaningful changes to the technologies that are associated with those scenarios? Thankfully, Microsoft went in the second direction.…

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